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Stories & legends
POLAND
Class 6d
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
These are stories written by Polish pupils and illustrated
by their project friends from France and Turkey
Shadow Monster ................................................................................ 4
Mysterious medalion ......................................................................... 6
Bad dream .......................................................................................... 8
Ben Nevis .......................................................................................... 10
Legend of beautiful mermaid ........................................................... 12
The legend of Smok Wawelski .......................................................... 14
Legend of the monster from loch Ness ............................................. 16
Kevin’s friend .................................................................................... 18
The dragon of the Wawel Hill ........................................................... 20
The legend of basilisk ........................................................................ 22
Illustrations ....................................................................................... 25
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SHADOW MONSTER
A few weeks ago, in a large city known all over the world thanks to the
presence of Big Ben, lived a little red - haired girl with increadible
imagination. She went to school and she ate cereal for breakfast like other
children at her age, she had large parents and lazy dog. Freckles on her
nose looked like freckles on the
noses of other little girls, and
big, blue eyes reflected the
same picture as the eyes of
other people with the wide
open blue eyes. The girl,
however, was not the same as
the "amorphous" peers. She
had the secret, which she kept
very firmly. The secret, which
had no other child or people
with large, blue eyes. The girl
was afraid of the shadow.
She was afraid, because she knew that there were some unfriendly
creatures. Their main creature was continuously hungry. The girl was very
clever-she tried to solve the problem of hunger in many ways. She asked
the dog to lay down politely at the locker at the place where the sun does
not reach, even when she tried to make a tea, it around corners and
causing a rapid cooling dark drink. Unfortunately, the only effect of which
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she managed to reach this excess food products for cleaning and dog fur
in the corners, which you couldn’t see. The creature was still very hungry.
She bought a small, handy flashlight with a green pattern on the end part
of the luminous, which she saw on television. The girl tried to cut short
time of sleeping, which accounted for the creature of the shadows the
best opportunity to consume the girls. The parents were worried about
a strange behavior of the child and tried to find out the cause of her
obsessive avoiding of dark places. The little girl was getting more and
more scared. Her fear escalated in proportion to the hunger of the beast
waiting for her in each unsaturated corner and she knew she could not
tell anyone about it. She loved her parents and wanted them to be safe.
Some extremely dark and windy night, when the moon was new, the
unforeseen changes occured suddenly and violently. The lights around the
girl worked intensively, when suddenly the town was dark. The girl ran up
towards the cupboards, where there was the torch. After two minutes the
electricity was restored and all the lights over the girl’s bed shined
blinding glow. However, the bed was empty and lonely, and there was no
trace of the girl. On the floor there was a torch with a green pattern... .
No one knows what happened to the girl.
By Ania Jabłońska
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There was a young girl Ania, who moved one day with
her parents to a new house. She didn't have any friends so
she spent most of her time snooping around this old house.
One day she went upstairs to the attick. Where she
found an old chest, in which there was a diary. She decided
to read it.There was written a story of a girl from the diary,
she became Ania's best friend.The girl was named Lucy.
Lucy wrote about a mysterious medallion, when you slept
with that medallion, it transfered you into magical world.
Ania thought that her life was very lonely, so she
decided to look for it. To her amazement, that medallion was
hidden in her own room behind the mirror. She put it on and
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went to bed full of hope, that her dream would come true.
When she opened her eyes she saw the most wonderful
thing she could imagine - a magic forest full of fairies and
elves. From that moment, Ania was no longer lonely. Every
night she put on that medallion to move to another world.
She did that until she finally got a real friend.That friend
became a girl who also moved to that town with her family.
Ania did the same as Lucy, she wrote down her story and put
the medallion in that chest.
If another child moved into this house and felt lonely,
it would help them to feel better.
By Karolina Koper
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One night there was a disco. I decided to go to it. It lasted for about
one hour. The fun was wonderful. When I wanted to go home
a strange door caught my attention. I was certain that the door was not
in here before. Slowly, I moved towards the door. It proved to be
opened. Hesitantly I went inside. The room where I found myself was
about 15m wide and 20m long. At this time it seemed huge. Legs were
not waiting for the brain to just moved ahead. On the walls there were
painting and old tapestries of known families. For a long time I stood
looking at them. I really liked them. There was something that made
me looking, I could not tear my eyes. I moved on. I saw something
that made my breath collapsed. I could not take a step. I was delighted
with what I saw. In the end I went on. Suddenly I screamed shrilly.
I collided with a hard lead. I thought it was probably a monster,
beacuse after what I saw already I began to belive in ghosts and other
spooks. Tentatively I raised my head. I saw a big head with stucking
long teeth. I thought I was going to faint, but somehow I remained on
my feet. I took a step back, and I wanted to flee, but the monster had
replaced my way. Dangerous bogeyman leaned on me it looked like
it was trying to kill me with one bite of his huge jaws. My fate was
sealed. Then I woke up. Luckily it was only a bad dream ...
By Marysia Kutrowska
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Long time ago there
lived a little boy - Ben
Nevis. His dad was very
rich so he gave him lots
of presents. All his
friends liked him,
because he had money.
He wanted to be
appreciated not for
what he had but who he was. One day when he looked for his
toys he thought that he had lots of things to climb. He went
for the ticket to climb at the mountain. Ben wanted to climb
at the mountain which was 1344 meters high. It was small
but nobody could climb it.
The man with tickets said that Ben wasn't old enough and he
didn't sell him a ticket. At night Ben started to make a plan
of the climb. When he finished he ran to the stall with
tickets. He started to slink. When he was under
the mountain he took a lamp and started to climb.
He climbed, climbed and climbed. It was cold.
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After few minutes it started to rain. Ben was very cold and
he wanted to go at the top but it was still a lot of road
before him. He started to cry, but he continued climbing.
In the morning all the people could see a very courageous
boy at the top. In the newspaper, TV, in roads there were
photos of him. He became famous. Ben climbed down and his
father was waiting for him. He felt excited. His friend liked
him not for what he had but who he was. Now to remember
this boy the mountain is called Ben Nevis.
By Ola Wichowska
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Legend
of beautiful
mermaid... One day, there were two sisters: Sawa and Gloria. They were
half-women, half-fishes. There were beautiful young girls, with blond,
curly hair and big, blue eyes. There was nothing special on that
morning, but they decided to swim along the river and one of them
said to her sister:
- Here’s so nice! I want to stay there! Do you want to join me or
you want to find different place for your new place on earth?
- You know I love you sister… THIS MUCH! But I don’t really like
this place. If you are not disappointed I will visit you some
time... I hope that you will be happy there... Remember that
you are my beloved sister forever! See you soon.
And she swam along next river for about hundred kilometres
and when she saw unknown country she said to herself:
- Wow! I think that here’s awesome! I don’t want to move out
there… I think that I will meet somebody interesting there and
I will find new friends! Let’s see who lives there…
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And when she saw that there’s nobody in this lovely place she
wanted to change that and she sang with a beautiful voice on every
part of the world:
- Heeeey! People, children, girls, boys, come here and see how
excited there is! I promise that you will be glad of living here!
And, on the land, showed a man – he was so fascinated of her
voice and he wanted to know who sang like that. When he saw her,
her hair and her eyes, he said to himself:
- I’m in love with this mermaid… I don’t care about anything!
I really want to stay there and listen to her beautiful voice.
I want to have wonderful life in this place and with this
woman…
And he came to river and said everything what he thought
when he saw her. She was moved by these words… And she said
YES when he asked if she would marry him. And this is the
beginning of the story of WARSAW, because the man’s name was
Wars.
They lived together, forever for hundred years… They built our
beautiful capital city!
By Szymek Brząkała
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The Legend of Smok Wawelski
Some centuries ago there lived in a cave at the foot of Wawel Hill
the most horrible fire-belching dragon, a monster that ravaged the
nearby meadows by devouring grazing cattle. In vain the bravest
knights tried to overcome the dragon. Even before they could draw
their swords the fire from the beast's mouth destroyed them, so that
one after another the best fell.
The king who reigned at the time sent out his heralds to announce
that whosoever could slay the dragon would as a reward marry his
daughter and sit on his throne after his death. Contenders
encouraged by such a handsome offer came in hosts, but they too
were destroyed. The king gave himself up to despair, while the king's
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daughter wrung her hands as she could not expect to ever be
married. The dragon-ravaged country became poorer and poorer.
Then a shoemaker named Krak decided to conquer the beast by
a unique strategy. After stuffing a fat ram with sulphur, he placed the
tasty tidbit at the cave's entrance. The dragon, being greedy as well
as stupid, swallowed the treacherous gift in one mouthful. Its throat
burned so that it ran to the nearby Vistula river, gulping down so
much water that it burst with a great bang, thus setting the town and
the surrounding countryside free from its grip of terror.
The shoemaker married the king's daughter, and after the monarch's
death, ascended to the throne. The town he rescued from the
clutches of Smok, the dragon of Wawel Hill, took its name from him,
and bears it to this day with great honour - the old capital of Poland -
Krakow.
By Dominika Panek
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Long, long time ago there lived three wizards:
Eli – clairvoyant, Tarjei – arsonist and Tengel – necromancer. They lived in small
house in Scotland and fought with million demons from Xansas dimension.
If it were not, everyone in the world would die.
On day appeared the dragon. He was very big and powerful. Wizards
were horrified.
They had a lost, but Tarjei had got a idea:
- We must create a shadow warrior – he said.
- It’s too dangerous! – said Eli.
- We have to try. – said Tengel.
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So, Tengel created a shadow warrior. Tarjei revived him. Now it was turn to Eli.
She used her power, merged all and redirected to the shadow.
The fight lasted a long time. Finally, wizards put the dragon in jail under the
lake. Eli hang all and redirected to their bodies. Then she fell dead. Only Tengel
coul help she. He banished shadow of death from her soul. We did it!
Eli survived.
- Thank you – She said.
- No problem – Said Tengel
- You saved my life
She smiled and fell asleep.
Eli slept for five days. When she woke up, the boys were talking about
something. They wanted to start the school for wizards. Eli agreed
immediately. Together they built it and learned magic in it. They lived for long
time and was very happy!
THE END.
Now you know the true legend about Loch Ness monster. The monster can not
get free. For now... Ha ha ha ha !
by Ola Rasińska
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Long time ago there lived a small boy. He came from poor family, but he was
very happy. The boy was nice and friendly and he liked helping people. One day
Kevin heard strange sounds. He looked by the window and he saw big and
beautiful car. In this car there was an elegant man. Kevin’s father talked with
him. When they finished conversation his father walked into the house. He
hold a little brown dog. His dad told him that this elegant man gave him the
dog for one month to care. Kevin was so excited. He started to play with the
sweet little dog. At night Kevin sat on the bed. After few minutes he was
asleep. In his dream there was a big monster and a small boy, Mike.
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The monster was called Nessie. Everyone thought that Nessie was a dangerous
beast so they wanted to kill it. But the monster was Mike’s friend. So he
defended it. He was successful. The dream was finished at this.
In the morning Kevin wanted to be a friend of the monster called Nessie. So he
ate breakfast and he went to the lake, but he didn’t see anybody. Suddenly he
saw something under the water. It was a big monster and it wanted to eat
Kevin. The boy was very scared. He tried to run away, but he couldn’t.
The monster opened his jaws and suddenly it fell off under the water. His dog
saved his life. He ran home as fast as he could. Kevin told his dad what
happened near the lake. He kissed him and said that he had to wait for Mr.
Black , because he wanted to take his dog. Kevin started crying. When the big
car stopped next to house Kevin’s father went to welcome Mr. Black and he
asked that the dog would stay for more time. The elegant man agreed. Kevin
was very happy and his dad was happy too.
By Ola Wichowska
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The dragon of the Wawel Hill Many centuries ago, in a cave near the Vistula River lived an enormous
dragon. He was truly frightening and dangerous.
The story took place during the reign of Prince Krak - the legendary
founder of the city of Cracow. At this time, the young girls disappeared
constantly, and nobody in Cracow did not know what happened to them. One
day it turned out that it was already mentioned the terrible dragon. It caught
not only cattle, pigs, sheeps and others animals, but the most delicious,
however, were these young girls. Inhabitants were really intimidated.
The Prince Krak, therefore, declared:
– Whoever kills a dragon, gets half of the my kingdom and my daughter for
a wife.
Many brave knights came to fight the dragon. However, none of them did
not overcome him. Finally, a young, poor shoemaker had a great idea!
He showed his plans for the Prince Krak:
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– I will prepare a sheep skin stuffed with sulfur and I will put under the
dragon's cave. I hope that the hungry monster saw the delicious lamb and he
will not think long - devour it in one breath.
– My dear young man, I think that it is a brilliant idea, but you must be very
careful, because the dragon is really clever.
– Don't worry about me, I will manage with it.
The dragon was so greedy that he ate the sheep in one second.
Immediately afterwards he felt a burning sensation in his stomach. It has
an enormous powerful. Thirsty, the monster ran to the bank of the Vistula River,
and began drinking water from the river. He drank a sip, second, third, but still
could not quench his thirst. He was drinking more and more. Suddenly, he
broke up!
The city was liberated from the terrible dragon. Inhabitants were crying
for hapiness and the Prince Krak said:
– I can not find words to thank you. You are our hero!
– It was pleasure for me to help.
– I give you, of course, the promised reward.
In this way, the shoemaker married Prince's daughter and they lived
happily even after.
By Weronika Kornobis
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A long time ago in Warsaw lived an armourer named Melchior. Quality of his
armors was known throughout the country. It was said that he made the discs
so well polished that you could look at them, and during the battle they
reflected the sun blinding enemies.
His pride and joy were his two children - a boy and a girl. Once to the city some
artists arrived. Children begged his father to let them go to the market and
watch performances by jugglers. Father agreed but he warned them not
to draw near to the old house on Crooked Circle. People were saying that in the
basement haunted, and those who dared to go in never had come back.
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Market performances were great, the kids were like enchanted. After the
presentation, together with a host of jugglers they went to the inn where the
artists were staying. At some point, they realized that one of the acrobats
moved away from the crowd and disappeared inside an old abandoned
building. Children realized that they were on the Crooked Circle, a building the
father warned them not to come in. But curiosity won and the boy with the girl
followed in the footsteps of daredevill.
The basement was dark, but the kids saw a little light at the far wall located.
They saw how the light followed the man, and a moment later they heard him
scream and squawk a strange animal. Before the artist appeared little dragon
with the head of a rooster and a snake's tail. One look into the eyes of
a monster caused the man turned to stone. Feared children hid behind the
crates standing in the basement. There was no escape, because the monster
trotted nervously around the room.
It began to get dark. Melchior was increasingly concerned about the long
absence of their children. He decided to go to the market and look for them.
Along the way, he saw the crowd gathered in front of the apartment building
at Crooked Circle. He was getting more nervous and decided to see where this
crowd. Onlookers were talking about an artist who did not listen to the
warnings of locals and went to the basement in search of treasures. Some in
the audience had seen the children who followed in his footsteps.
Melchior knew in his heart that his beloved little children were seen there last.
He ran to his workshop. He put the best armour and grabbed the most
beautiful and shiny shield because they did not know what dangers, what
horrors were hidden in the cellar. He returned to the wheel and plunged curves
in the basement of an old house.
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When he was at the bottom he saw the flickering light against the wall. Sensed,
however, that there was a hidden danger, so approaching in that direction
obstructed his shield. When he jumped on the armorer basilisk, instead of the
victim he saw a shiny disc, and it reflected. Look terrible basilisk beast worked
immediately turning to stone. The monster was defeated by its own weapons.
Children watched the whole event. Seeing that the beast turned to stone they
jumped out and ran to his father, hugging him with joy. When the family
emerged from the underworld, people gathered at the house cheered loudly
because of Melchior courage. History about defeat of the basilisk quickly
spread throughout Warsaw and is told to this day.
By Magda Żołnierzak
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The illustrations we made for our friends’ stories
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THE END
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